This first dictionary of entrepreneurship provides both the concepts and examples needed to describe and understand entrepreneurship from different economic perspectives, thus offering a large overview of both seminal and contemporary research.

The Political Construction of Energy PricesSociology of a liberal reform

Thomas Reverdy

Drawing from several surveys conducted between 2004 and 2010, this work describes the significant institutional, organisational and technical infrastructure necessary to transform electricity into commodities, and reveals the fundamental role of political decision-making, including with regard to liberal reforms and the creation of a new market.

Restructuring the Social Protection SystemTowards a New Generation of Social Rights

Bernard Gazier, Bruno Palier, Hélène Périvier

Designing a new architecture for social protection, the book shows that it is urgent and possible to rebuild the system. A plea for the design of a new generation of social rights, by three specialists in family policies, employment, social protection!

Table of contents: The Genesis of the Modern Professional Investor - The Risk of Rating: Negotiating Trust ans Responsability in the 19th Century Credit Information - (De)valuing the Future: The Discounted Cash Flow Formula and the Investing Manager - Towards a Sociological Account of Postcolonialism

The origins and power of mercantile institutions are among the enigmas that this work attempts to explore across an original theoretical context as well as a series of studies on the wine market, biotechnology firms, and the convention ISO 26000.